| PMC full text: | Published online 2008 Jun 19. doi: 10.1186/1472-6939-9-12
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Table 1
Baseline socio-economic characteristics of study participants
| Characteristics | Categories | % (n) | [95%CI] |
| Age groups (years) | < 25 | 14.8 (40) | [10.7, 19.6] |
| 25–35 | 48.5(131) | [42.4, 54.6] | |
| > 35 | 36.7(99) | [30.9, 42.7] | |
| Formal education (years) | None | 53.7 (145) | [47.5, 59.8] |
| 1–9 | 42.6 (115) | [36.6, 48.7] | |
| > 9 | 3.7 (10) | [1.7, 6.7] | |
| Primary occupation | Farming | 62.2 (168) | [56.1, 68.0] |
| Trading | 34.1 (92) | [28.4, 40.1] | |
| Others | 3.7 (10) | [1.7, 6.7] | |
| Marital status | Married | 91.9 (248) | [87.9, 94.8] |
| Single | 2.6 (7) | [1.0, 5.3] | |
| Others | 5.6 (15) | [3.1, 9.0] | |
| Religion | Christianity | 71.9 (194) | [66.0, 77.1] |
| Islam | 0.7 (2) | [0.1, 2.1] | |
| African traditional | 27.4 (74) | [22.1, 33.1] |
The table shows the various categories of baseline socioecominc characteristics of the study participants.